Google Forms Analysis – Main TaskJonathan Sheehan -2127

Name: Jonathan SheehanCandidate Number: 2127Center Name: St. Andrew’s Catholic SchoolCenter Number: 64135

OCR Media Studies – A2 Level

Unit G324: Advanced Portfolio

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From this the most common age group analysed was 16-24 which guessing is the main demographic I am appealing to at 70%. No one surveyed is above the age of 54 and the three other age groups which are 25-34, 35-44 and 45-54 both have answered equally at 10% each.

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Most of the gender surveyed are female at 60% which supports Rebecca Feasey’s theory of ‘soap operas appealing to the strong, dominant female.’ This will mean that the results given are those that are expected due to the group basing the soap opera around this theory with the narrative themes of the strong female baking.

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Many people had seen features present that were incorporated within real soap operas such as the BBC 2 ident, voiceover, critical praise and multi stranded narrative which is extremely positive as the intention was to create a soap opera trailer as conventional as possible. Although some people had not noticed any features present, this may be because they are so used to the average soap opera trailer structure that this prevented them from noticing any conventions that were different.

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80% of people voted that there was a clear distinction between the multi stranded narrative and the flashbacks which is extremely positive. Written answers such as ‘the black and white effect helps distinguish it’ is very positive as this was the main intention. Other answers read that there was a clear distinction between the two. Some answers were negative and some respondents couldn't’t see the distinction which is constructive feedback we can use as a group to improve our understanding for making a future trailer.

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60% understood the characters narratives which is not very positive as this is only just over half positive. As a group we will take this into consideration and work out a way to make this more obvious by altering the narratives and characters actions of any future trailer produced by us. The themes may have been altered by including more diegetic dialogue to express the characters more as this was very absent throughout.

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100% of audience members reported that the point of call information is useful towards the trailer. Written answers have said that they are able to ‘know when the program is on’, ‘what channel its on’, ‘informs the necessary information’ which is great. As a group this was useful to see as we would include this for sure in the future. Constructive criticism was that more information could've been included, which is understandable as we could've included a tagline such as ‘Turn up the heat’ keeping with the baking theme.

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77.8% of the respondents reported that the critical praise increases the overall hype of the trailer which is very positive with written answers stating that it makes them want to watch it more as it is positive, makes the audience more inclined to watch and gives assurance that it will be a good soap. This is positive as we would include this again in the future. Constructive criticism features that they don’t know who the soap magazines are and that it should have been more believable which is very positive to reflect on for next time however, this was hard as we tried to include all of our newly established magazines for the praise, next time we could try and feature already established soap opera magazines.